RE: New Kernel lose sound
I have encountered the same problems whenever I recompile my kernel I loose
the sound (alsa drivers) functionality, also I would lose my modem drivers
(eagle drivers) functionality.
Personally I have never been able to get the apt-get install alsa-utils to
work.
My solution to both these problems was :
For the eagles drivers get the latest version from their site and run the
install script which seems to work just fine on debian sarge.
For the alsa drivers, I went and got the latest sources as well from their
site, compiled and installed them manually.
Now for some reason without a reboot modprobe would not work even with a
correctly configured modules.conf. Upon reboot all should be fine (or was
for me any ways), your levels will be defaulted back to zero you will need
to set them up again.
Cheers,
Tim
> It seems everytime I compile a new kernel I lose sound.
>
> I just installed Debian Sarge 3.1 on my IBM T41
>
> Everything went smoothly, but as to be expected, several kernel settings
> weren't to my liking... so I compiled a new one.
>
> I used the .config file located here
> http://www.student.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~bamoore/projects/debian_on_t41/.config
>
> And everything compiled smoothly.
>
> The only settings I changed were to follow these to attempt to get the
> framebuffer working (that didn't work either, but I can't say I care so
> much
> right now)
> Under Graphics Support --> Support For Frame Buffer devices, place a
> checkmark in the VGA 16 Color Graphics Suport box. Place a checkmark in
> the
> Vesa VGA Graphics support, also check any box that matches your video card
> if there is one.
>
>
> I basically went step through step these instructions
> http://www.desktop-linux.net/debkernel.htm
>
> Then I reboot and no sound. I got an error I stupidly didn't write down as
> I
> expected to see it again, basically telling me /dev/dsp didn't exist.
>
> So, I followed the instructions at the bottom of that page... did an apt-
> get
> install alsa-utils, ran alsaconf which ended with a plain blue screen and
> a
> box that says <ok> but nothing to click.
>
> If I run it in a Konsole window instead of actually running from a console
> I
> can see that this was output
> Modinfo: could no find module snd
> Modinfo: could not find module snd
> Modinfo: could not find module snd
> Terminating processes: 2837...done.
> Unloading sound driver modules...done.
> Modinfo: could not find module snd-opl3sa2
> Modinfo: could not find module snd-cs4236
> Modinfo: could not find module snd-cs4232
> Modinfo: could not find module snd-cs4231
> Modinfo: could not find module snd-es18xx
> Modinfo: could not find module snd-es1688
> Modinfo: could not find module snd-sb16
> Modinfo: could not find module snd-sb8
>
> (All small m's but my mail is insiting they be capitalized for now)
>
> So I'm completely stumped... if I boot back to my old kernel, also no
> sound.
> Alsaconf didn't make anything work, but it did make the error disappear
> that
> was saying /dev/dsp doesn't exist.
>
> And the user I'm logging in as is in the audio group.
>
> Any advice?
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